Stellar Distance and Velocity - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics

JAMP > Vol.7 No.1, January 2019

Stellar Distance and Velocity ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2019.71016 787 Downloads 1,483 Views

Author(s)

Miloš Čojanović

Affiliation(s)

Independent Scholar, Montreal, Canada.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, a method is presented by which it is possible to determine a distance between the sun and a star as well as a velocity at which the star moves relative to the sun. In order to achieve this, it is sufficient to know three positions of the star and the unit vectors determined by the star and three arbitrarily chosen points that do not lie on a single line. The method has been tested using the data generated by a computer program as well as real data obtained by Gaia mission. In the first case, we found the huge differences comparing the results derived by the method to the results calculated by the traditional parallax method. In the second case also, there are large differences between the obtained and the expected results, but primarily because of the form of the input data, that is not fully suited to the proposed method. Under certain conditions, one would be able to find a velocity at which the sun is moving regarding a stationary coordinate system (K) that will be defined later on.

KEYWORDS

Stellar Distance, Stellar Velocity

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Čojanović, M. (2019) Stellar Distance and Velocity. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 7, 181-209. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2019.71016.

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